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Cabins in the Woods of FlagstaffTue, 24 Feb 2015 00:29:41 +0000en-UShourly1Chicken & Waffleshttp://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/fieldhouse-chicken-waffles/
http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/fieldhouse-chicken-waffles/#commentsMon, 23 Feb 2015 23:08:59 +0000http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/?p=1487I love delicious blueberries served on top of a warm waffle, and I also love crunchy chicken tenders with a side of blue cheese. Never in my wildest food dreams would I have combined my favorite breakfast and lunch items, but I am so happy FieldHouse Chicken and Waffles decided to! If you’re in the mood for a Southern-style breakfast or lunch that will fill you up for a good price, this your place!

Fieldhouse is a relatively new restaurant in Flagstaff, residing in the same plaza as its sister restaurant, Tavern Greek Grill. It offers a Southern favorite, the chicken and waffles combo, in eight different varieties ranging from chocolate and bananas to my favorite, My Boy Blue, which has blue cheese and blueberries. The sweet waffles combined with the seasoned chicken tenders provides a filling meal, and with sweet blueberries pair well with the strong flavors of the cheese. I’ve had chicken and waffles a few times before the FieldHouse opened, but their recipes are too good to ignore.

Even if you’re not too keen on trying this interesting plate, I definitely recommend this restaurant for its burgers and sides as well! I’ve had at least a few bites of the Southern Burger, my husband’s favorite, and it really combined the perfect amount of spice and cheesy goodness on a soft pretzel bun!

]]>http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/fieldhouse-chicken-waffles/feed/0Bride in the Pineshttp://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/june-wedding-at-the-inn/
http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/june-wedding-at-the-inn/#commentsMon, 23 Feb 2015 22:45:37 +0000http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/?p=1479The following story was written by the “Bride to Be” who will be getting married here at the Inn in June 2015 . And what a great story it is! Make sure to come back and see the wedding pictures later this year.

“Brian and I met in the anthropology program in grad school at Northern Arizona University and quickly became good friends. A year later Brian asked me out on our first date and a year after that we moved in together.”

“Two years later Brian asked if I wanted to go to Diablo Burger for lunch, which I thought was funny because normally we only go there to celebrate things. As we walked over he stopped at Beaver Street Brewery (the place we first met) and told me I was going to have to earn my lunch. He said he was going to take me to a series of places important in our relationship and I was going to have to tell him why they were important. So after Beaver Street, Lumberyard, Dara Thai, and Diablo Burger, he took me to Heritage Square. Not only was I confused as to why we didn’t stop at Diablo Burger, but I also had no idea why Heritage Square was included. Then he got down on one knee, pulled out my grandmother’s ring, and said this is where I asked you to marry me. Of course I said yes and we celebrated with some Diablo Burger!”

“Once we started looking around for a venue for the wedding, we couldn’t seem to find any place that really fit us. We wanted to have a really laid back wedding weekend where we could focus on spending time with all of the people who are most important to us. Then we heard about the Arizona Mountain Inn. Mary and her team were super helpful and we just knew right away walking around the cabins that this was it. We can’t wait for our wedding to be in such an incredibly beautiful and intimate location!”
By – Jessica Savage

We have been coming up to Flagstaff since before I could remember. My dad went to NAU for a few years and always loved Flagstaff because it reminded him of growing up in Germany. He wanted his kids to experience the colors changing in fall and what it felt like to hear the wind whistle through the trees while on a hike through the woods. We (my mom, dad, younger sister, and I) always loved coming to the Arizona Mountain Inn because it was so cozy. All of the cabins felt like home. We loved spending quality family time, playing board games on the porch and hide and seek in the woods.

Fast forward a few years and along came Nick. Nick and I met at our previous job. I was the leasing manager and he was on the maintenance team at an apartment complex in Tempe. We would attend work events just to spend more time with each other. When he asked me on our first date, I didn’t even let him get out the whole sentence before saying yes! We dated only a short time before he asked me to be his girlfriend. We took a few family trips, one to San Francisco with his family last November and to California with my family in December. I ended up getting my own taste of Ohio when we went last Christmas for me to meet the rest of his family! Over the course of a year we moved in together and got a puppy! I was so excited to plan our one year anniversary up to Arizona Mountain Inn, and so glad we could bring our new member of the family, Gunner! I couldn’t help but want to share the Inn with Nick! Flagstaff is like a second home to me, and since he grew up in Ohio, I thought it would feel kind of like home to him, too. Unknowingly, Nick had planned his whole proposal and completely surprised me! Not only was I shocked that he proposed, but both of our parents were there! It was definitely a trip to Arizona Mountain Inn that I will never forget, and can’t wait to bring our kids one day and share the story of how their parents got engaged!

By Dani Volhardt

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http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/restaurants/ewas-thai/#commentsFri, 19 Sep 2014 07:55:34 +0000http://205.234.189.24/~azmtninn/?p=1153I have to start by saying that I really love Thai Food. And, Ewa’s did not disappoint. The food is really good. I’ve been there a few times now and I have not had a bad dish yet. They are a bit on the HOT SIDE, so you need to be careful when ordering. If you typically like a “3” at other Thai Restaurants, then order a “2” or even an “1” instead. Go lower than you normally would or you probably won’t like your meal. I took some friends there, warned them, and they didn’t follow through. It was too hot for them, and they might not go back.

I’m still actually searching for that core two or three dishes that I can recommend and order a lot (over and over again). I’ve now had a few of their curry dishes and think I like the Mussamon (probably not spelled right) the best. They have a mild dish in brown sauce on the Vegetarian menu that you can actually order with meat if you like. It’s got a neat flavor. I think it’s oyster or fish sauce based. It goes as a really nice mix with a spicy curry. The menu is pretty large, so I plan to keep trying and experimenting with different choices.

The atmosphere is very nice. They did a good job remodeling it. Simple and comfortable. They also have these neat moving picture screens on one wall that my kids love to watch. And, I also must say that their service has been great!

]]>http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/restaurants/ewas-thai/feed/0Lots of Local Activitieshttp://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/things-to-do/lots-of-local-activities/
http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/things-to-do/lots-of-local-activities/#commentsWed, 17 Sep 2014 03:50:19 +0000http://205.234.189.24/~azmtninn/?p=1121There are a variety of activities that you can enjoy while visiting the Arizona Mountain Inn including ping-pong, horseshoes, volleyball and a board game closet located in the Inn. There are also many hiking and biking trails. Your children can play at our full-size playground with slide, merry-go-round, swing set and an adorable miniature cabin. If you choose to participate in the numerous activities in town, we are conveniently located one mile from Flagstaff.

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http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/things-to-do/geocaching-in-flagstaff/#commentsMon, 25 Aug 2014 07:16:36 +0000http://205.234.189.24/~azmtninn/?p=210Before our trip to Italy last year, my husband and I went geogaching at home here in Flagstaff. We were looking for a “trackable” or “travel bug,” which is a small object that can be tracked wherever it goes by a unique code stamped or printed on it. Not all geocaches contain travel bugs, but luckily we located one, attached to this cute little sock monkey pictured here. This trackable, which originated with a child in the Czech Republic and had already traveled nearly 17,000 miles among various caches, would travel with us from Flagstaff, Arizona, to Venice and the Amalfi Coast. The little girl who owned that little traveler would be able to track its movements online.

For those of you who might not be familiar with this geocaching, it’s basically a worldwide treasure hunt made up of containers of variable sizes, from teeny-weeny “micro” caches to larger ammo cans, which you look for using a set of map coordinates and clues. In most of the containers, you’ll find small exchangeable items — take something, leave something — and a log, where you record your name or geochacher’s nickname and the date you found the cache. There are also “earth caches,” where you find and photograph a specific location and often have to answer questions which you post back on the geocaching website. The main site for this global activity is geocaching.com.

Started in 2000, this treasure-hunting game has really grown in popularity, now played by more than 5 million people searching for more than 2 million hidden caches all over the world.

And Flagstaff is a great place to go geocaching, with a large number of caches located in and around town. Some of them are easily accessible by parking close to the location and walking a short distance, while others take more time and effort and sometimes strenuous hikes. One fun benefit of geocaching is that you get to see places you might not otherwise go. It’s an adventure every time and a pastime enjoyed by children and us “big kids” alike, so it’s a great thing to do as a family or a couple. There are a number of caches located in the vicinity of Arizona Mountain Inn, so you won’t have to travel far if you’d like to learn about geocaching and give it a try during your stay.

For more of the story on the little sock monkey travel bug, see Geocaching with Kids. To learn more about geocaching in general and maybe give it a try yourself, visit Geocaching.com.

This post was written by Deb Kingsbury, a friend of the Arizona Mountain Inn and local Flagstaff resident.

This increasingly popular two-day event, now with dozens of exhibits, workshops and whiskey-tastings, reenactments and Scottish clans, started out downtown in 1997 at Wheeler Park, with just 5 clans represented and 5 vendors. Today, the MUCH larger festival is preceded by a week of events surrounding the Jim Thomson U.S. School of Piping & Drumming and the Grand Canyon Celtic Arts Academy.

And speaking of fun things Scottish, have you watched the first episode of the Outlander series? For those who’ve yet to discover the 18th century Highland hunk named Jamie Frasier and Claire Randall, his British time-traveling love from the 1940s, this is a new television series on Starz, based on the books by Diana Gabaldon, who was raised right here in Flagstaff. The books, which are a combination of history, action, romance, medicinal botany (Claire is a WWII nurse) and mystery … and maybe more genres I haven’t thought of … are allail! (That’s Scottish Gaelic for excellent.)

If you want to check out the show, you can watch the first episode of Outlander for free here.

My name is Cindy Rosales and I live in Phoenix. I began hiking on occasion with a friend at a local park. I was just doing the same one over and over again, so I decided to join a hiking class at GCC, so that it would not only take me to different trails around the city to explore, but would challenge me. It did. These classes also trained me for taking on even bigger challenges like the Grand Canyon, Paria Canyon and Buckskin Gulch. I can say that I’ve done the Grand Canyon in three days and two nights for a total of 28 miles, as well as Buckskin Gulch on two different occasions, each one was 22 miles in length. The best part of this is that I’ve seen so many beautiful things that I would not normally see from the view points on the rim. It’s not just a desert.

The most important thing I’ve learned with all this hiking is that I need to take the time to enjoy what God has created for us, so needless to say I’m always the last to finish because I’m always taking pictures. I’m sure my family and friends get very tired of hearing about them. I will be hiking in Zion National Park soon, so they will more things to hear about and pictures to share. (smile)

Hiking is good for the soul!

Cindy is Mary’s sister, the owner of the Arizona Mountain Inn. She is wearing the neon yellow/green jacket.

]]>http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/things-to-do/hiking-the-grand-canyon/feed/0Snowbowl Chairlift Ridehttp://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/things-to-do/az-snowbowl/
http://www.arizonamountaininn.com/cabin-chatter/things-to-do/az-snowbowl/#commentsWed, 23 Jul 2014 07:27:50 +0000http://205.234.189.24/~azmtninn/?p=226One of my Flagstaff friends has a really unique volunteer job one day a week. Karen is a ranger at the top of the Arizona Snowbowl Scenic Chairlift ride on the western slope of the San Francisco Peaks. She really enjoys welcoming visitors and answering questions at “The Top of Arizona.” As an Interpretive Ranger, she presents information about the volcanic landscape of northern Arizona, points out the view to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, explains hiking options, and meets folks from all over the world. As a retired Forest Service Public Information Officer and longtime Snowbowl skier, she really knows that mountain.

Karen reminds chairlift riders to be prepared for the high elevation. The temperature at 11,500’ at the top can be 50­º cooler than Phoenix and even 20º cooler than Flagstaff. Along with a jacket or sweatshirt, it’s a good idea to wear sturdy shoes, a hat, sunglasses and bring a water bottle. The chairlift operates Friday through Sundays through the summer and early fall. For more info go to www.arizonasnowbowl.com/things-to-do/ranger_program.php.